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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

existential youth, photographic, 30"x40"

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While waiting to meet a friend for lunch, in the area just off of Wall Street recently, an ethnically mixed group of skateboard jumpers appeared out of nowhere. They made several jumps off the ledge which I was privileged to snap into action and photograph as quickly as possible. I have applied special effects so that the daring young daredevils are unrecognizable however, their youthful vigor comes through somehow even in these abstraction images. I said a few words, "Can I take some pictures?" or something like that that may or may not have registered but they were kind and did some stunts before wandering off to some better location for their daring leaps.

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Oscar Wilde‘s statement above is sadly true:Art is useless.But the truth in this idea can be taken further and from another perspective, truth may also be seen in the following statement: “The jewel is in the lotus.”In a further analysis the simple, fundamental truth may just be that Art in itself is the flower.Art is the flower of youth and the lotus blossom of old age.Art is the flower of antiquity and the gift of the modern world, thorny though it may be at times."